anatomize

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Wu looked instead to the example of documentary legend Frederick Wiseman, whose immersive films anatomize institutions through keen observation and canny editing.

From Los Angeles Times

Social media “at first seemed like a benevolent force in political organizing”, Buttigieg writes, anatomizing a misconception bolstered by the success of Obama’s brilliant first campaign.

From The Guardian

Courtney Marie Andrews’s luminous new album, “Old Flowers,” anatomizes the aftermath of breaking up: loneliness, bittersweet memories, recriminations, regrets, temptations, lessons of experience.

From New York Times

We know the progress of England’s Great plague of 1665 because Samuel Pepys anatomized it in his diary.

From New York Times

By rendering it truthfully, yet also as beautiful in itself and without reference to human fears, he puts the virus exactly where it needs to be: a thing apart, to be studied, anatomized and understood.

From Washington Post